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OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere (www.techradar.com)
submitted 4 days ago by gerowen@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Subtitle: Qualys finds two worrying bugs in OpenSSH

When I checked my personal rigs Debian had already released the patches and my home server had already auto updated itself.

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[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago

Soo, the point is to not enable features that undermine security, like using an FQDN as a key (or source of a key) and to enable features that reduce DoS, like a connection timeout. Does not sound like bugs, just like missing default options.

It's still important to not use the affecting options.